Playing Along With Amorcita (Answers)

Since I’ve been watching a lot of movies of late, I thought I’d do one of my rare memes.

These were the rules:

1. Pick 11 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it’s guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions (or any other forms of cheating)

Anybody who’s been reading me for a while should get a good chunk of these. 🙂

**=New comments from me.
***=New Comments from others.

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1) “I eat the pussy, I eat the butt, I eat every motherfuckin’ thang.”

—#1 True Romance…my man bronson is in it! [BabySteps]

**Are you sure you didn’t cheat on this one since you actually know Bronson? Plus I’ve been trying to get you to watch this for years since your boy toy Christian Slater is in it. But this line is actually from Samuel L. Jackson’s two minute stint as “Big Don”. But it was a great two minutes.

***didn’t cheat…haven’t seen it…but have a new “friend” 🙂 who quotes that line all the damn time. It was he who told me that bronson was in it…I IMDB’d it to see if he was right ages ago and he was.

first time he said that to me I was all WHAT?! WHAT Did you just say to me?@! lol..now I just giggle when he says it.

[BabySteps]

2) “We tried sodium amatol on him three years ago to find out where he buried a Princeton student; he gave ’em a recipe for potato chip dip.”

**William Petersen as Will Graham in Michael Mann’s 1986 thriller, Manhunter. This was later remade as RED DRAGON, with Edward Norton in the Petersen role. But in the original, Brian Cox plays “Hannibal Lecktor” (the original spelling from the Thomas Harris RED DRAGON novel) and does an admirable job.

3)”Never has a man less equipped for parenthood tried so hard.”

**One of my favorite Fairuza Balk movies, Imaginary Crimes. This one makes me weep like a teenage girl. 🙂

4)”You see, it’s just that kind of sarcasm that’s given our marriage real spice.”

**Richard Farnsworth’s quip to Frances Sternhagen in Misery. Here you have two of the best character actors in the world almost stealing the entire show from James Caan and Kathy Bates. It couldn’t have been easy.

5)”Jon Dillinger was killed behind that theater in a hail of FBI gunfire. And do you know who tipped them off? His fucking girlfriend. All he wanted to do was go to the movies.”

**–High Fidelity [Shahea] got this one! You gotta love John Cusak’s performance in this. It’s pitch perfect.

6)”Are you kidding me with this stuff about your aunt? You’re not kidding? Maria I just went through this with people who said a white act couldn’t play a colored tour and we got along fine. We’re still getting along.”

**Gary Busey in 1978’s The Buddy Holly Story. Although historically inaccurate, it does capture the feel of the music and the time period very well. One of the first movies I ever fell completely in love with.

7)”Go ahead, steal our snowblower. You’re the slowest goddamn thief that I ever saw.”

**This is an obscure one and I knew chances of somebody getting it were slim. This is Melanie Griffith to Paul Newman in Nobody’s Fool. Despite the difference in age, there’s a chemistry between the two actors in the film. Sofia Coppola probably took note of this when prepping for LOST IN TRANSLATION.

8)”That’s because we’re uncool. And while women will always be a problem for us, most of the great art in the world is about that very same problem. Good-looking people don’t have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we’re smarter.”

**Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous. I think this scene is pure gold, both honest and funny at the same time.

9)”Well, your mum rang about you going around tomorrow night, and then Liz rang about the two of you eating out tonight, and then your mum rang back to see if I wanted to eat her out tonight.”

***9 = Shaun Of The Dead

11 = Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Which are incidentally two of my favorite movies!

10 is familiar… I may be back after I parse it some more. [Lor]

**[Lor] Got both 9 and 11 right. Shaun Of The Dead is the best zombie comedy movie ever made and even non-horror fans will end up laughing their asses off.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a little more obscure. Shane Black, the writer of the first LETHAL WEAPON film, directs this one and destroys all the conventions of the “buddy cop” genre he created. It’s a funny-ass flick and Robert Downey Jr.’s return to greatness.

I’m shocked nobody’s gotten #10 right, though.

10)”I can see it all now, this is gonna be just like last summer. You fell in love with that girl at the Fotomat, you bought forty dollars worth of fuckin’ film, and you never even talked to her. You don’t even own a camera. “

**Mike Damone to Mark Ratner in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. If I was a FAST TIMES character, I’d be Rat. Back in the 80s, I was horrible with girls. Had some chick like Stacy put the moves on me, I probably would’ve bolted, too. So don’t be too hard on Rat, people.

11)”You remember the one I said that got away, yeah well that one was her. It all came flooding back how I was the one she confided in, the one she trusted, meanwhile she was doing every other guy in school. It was the first time I felt it, how pitying someone and wanting to fuck them can get all tangled up in your head… overwhelming sadness while having a rodney. Is that sick? Hm yeah, I think that’s sick…”

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. [Lor]

** By the way, this is one of my favorite lines ever in a movie. It captures exactly how I felt about a lot of girls in high school. 😉